Nacrtak Extraction of short-wood from harvesting operations is becoming common practice in Russia. Logging companies are faced with a large number of options for short-wood transport, but they have limited knowledge of logistics potential. Developed GIS-based decision support program is a unique tool assisting logging companies in making comprehensive decisions on organizational options for the...

the exergy analysis is a proper method for performance evaluation of industrial systems. a generic and detailed analysis of the gpcss on the second gas pipeline of iran  is made by the means of exergy. the two main improvement measures of fuel pre-heating and steam injection technologies are presented for the current conventional stations. steady state equations regarding the second law of ther...

The N otre Dame A rm y ROTC b a tta lio n trudged through the woods and slept unde r the stars th is past weekend w h ile conducting their semi-annual field tra in ­ ing exercise. The field training, or FTX, is a m il i ta ry tra in in g event intended to prepare jun io rs fo r a leade rsh ip camp the summer before senior year. Over 80 cadets — freshman through juniors — and senior staff left N...

Improving manufacturing efficiency and increasing product worth requires the right combination of actions throughout the manufacturing process. Many innovations have been developed over the last several decades to achieve these goals. Innovations typically work their way backwards in the manufacturing process, with an increasing level of monitoring occurring at the end of a production line. The...

in very recent papers asmild et al. (2003) and halved et al. (2004) based upon potential improvement efficiency index (bogetoft and hougaard,1999) have suggested an alternative nonparametric frontier approach namely multi-directional inefficiency analysis (mea) to estimate the performance efficiency. mea has many advantages over data envelopment analysis (dea) as the standard nonparametric fron...

this study aims to evaluation of knowledge management processes including knowledge generation & acquisition, saving & organizing, dissemination & sharing and application in the public sector especially in police through a case study based investigation and identifies factors affecting for improvement them. the evaluation was examined through 423 questionnaires provided by in different police u...

The importance of recycling and utilization of recycled fiber has recently been recognized because of concerns about environmental issues and economic aspects. In spite of several advantages offered by paper recycling such as wood savings through substitution of virgin pulp and reduction in chemical usage, recycled pulp also contains plenty of fines having high relative surface area and hig...